Tory Leader Tim Hudak was in Whitby this morning before speaking at the Canadian Club of Toronto at noon. His focus today was on the Liberals’ $317M bailout of a building development for MaRS in downtown Toronto, which the PCs claim could eventually cost the province over a billion dollars once further fit-up costs and amortization are taken into consideration.

New Democrats

In Toronto this morning, NDP Leader Andrea Horwath kept up her characterization of the Liberals as corrupt and wasteful, saying, “we’ve seen the Liberal government waste our money,” but, “we should be investing our tax dollars in the kinds of things that make a difference in people’s lives,” and promised to add another $15 million to Ontario’s $20.9-million school nutrition program, which she said would help feed 70,000 students across the province.

Liberals

Liberal Leader Kathleen Wynne, campaigning at Joseph Brant Hospital in Whitby, promised to bring primary-care access to the 700,000 Ontarians who are without it, and touted the Liberal government’s hiring of 5,000 new doctors during its decade in power. She contrasted this with the Tories’ plan to cut 100,000 public-sector jobs, which she said would invariably hurt health services in the province. Responding to Hudak’s charge of Liberal fiscal incompetence over the MaRS bailout, Wynne accused the Tory leader of trying to distract Ontarians from the shortcomings of his own million-jobs plan. She went to Lindsay in the afternoon and is campaigning in Bridgenorth this evening.